A glance at my overall opinion of a switch, and a visual TL;DR for reviews long and short. Larger numbers are better.

Sound: One of the first things people want to know about a switch: is it easy on the ears? Does it make an awful din?

Feel: What I consider to be the most important individual aspect of a switch – how does it treat your fingers?

Looks: Might matter less than the rest, but still matters plenty for some folks. I prefer the word “aesthetics” but I don’t like how it looks on the chart – so “looks” it is. Is it pretty?

Familiarity: Is the average user going to be able to pick this up and work with it right away, or will it take some getting used to? Is it all-out weird or totally approachable?

Parity: A shorter word for “consistency” – those last two aspects, are they more or less the same from switch to switch?

Value: Something of a contextual summary; how do all those other factors fit-in with the price? Not a direct measure of cost so much as my opinion of how much quality you get relative to that cost.

This graph shows what I think this switch (or keyboard) is good for, in terms of both task and environment.

This graph compares the push weight at various critical points. Sometimes visually similar to a force-curve graph, this is a little different, not tracking travel distance and being a pure comparison between the weights at meaningful points in travel (which may not be the same switch-to-switch) rather than measured distances.

This graph tracks the travel distance at key points.

This graph breaks-down the many aspects of switch wobble, giving an overall and comparative glance at the aspect and its various sub-components.

This graph breaks-down the sound character into component parts and their relative prominence.

This graph tracks various aspects of un-intended noise.